What Really Drove 23andMe And The FDA Apart BY ROBERT SAFIAN, fastcompany.com Is getting a $99 DNA test really hazardous to your health? Our editor-in-chief decodes an innovation dustup. When we put 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki on the cover of Fast Company’s November issue, we didn’t expect the FDA to yank the compan… http://flip.it/UoyAS Related … Continue reading 23andMe and the FDA: what really drove them apart
Why The FDA Can’t Be Flexible With 23andMe, By Law David Kroll, forbes.com “One of the challenges is the world has been evolving and yet we have legislation that reflects a different era.”– Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Almost a year ago, at the inaugural Forbes… http://flip.it/690F3 Related articles Why The FDA … Continue reading FDA and 23andme: why they did it
No DNA Testing For You, Thanks to the FDA By Nick Gillespie, thedailybeast.com Personal genetic tests are safe, innovative, and the future of medicine. So why is the most transparent administration ever shutting down a cheap and popular service? Because it can. In its infinite wisdom, the Food and Drug… http://flip.it/Np3Bq Related articles Nick Gillespie: … Continue reading FDA puts foot down on 23andme
FDA to start reining in the Wild West of medical apps by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, cnet.com The FDA says it is only regulating products that turn smartphones into medical devices it already oversees, such as apps that let your phone act as an electronic stethoscope or give feedback on CPR. The Wild West of mobile … Continue reading FDA reigning in medical apps
How to use 23andMe without giving up your genetic privacy Sarah A. Downey, venturebeat.com Sarah A. Downey is an attorney, privacy analyst, and writer at Abine, an online privacy startup in Boston. Find her on Twitter @SarahADowney. If you’re like me, the idea of knowing what’s in your genetic profile is both… http://flip.it/GpsmW Related articles … Continue reading 23andme: how to use genetic testing while ensuring privacy
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FDA gives thumbs-up to latest fingertip EKG | Crave - CNET. Related articles FDA gives thumbs-up to latest fingertip EKG (news.cnet.com) more information on the ninth day at M.I.M (pediatricianfuture.wordpress.com) How EKG Courses Are Presented (basictelemetryclass.wordpress.com)
pharmacognosy.us News & Announcements January 3rd, 2013 “On New Year’s Eve of 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of crofelemer (Fulyzaq™, Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., Raleigh, North Carolina) — marking the sec… http://flip.it/CYKFs The American Society of Pharmacognosy Related articles Salix Wins FDA Approval of Dragon's Blood Drug for Diarrhea … Continue reading The American Society of Pharmacognosy
FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Today the United States Food and Drug Administration approved a device that treats depression using… magnets. About 14.8 million American adults, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population, are diagnosed with major depression in … RT @FastCompany: FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating … Continue reading FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression
FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information pharma-mkting.com Two days after Christmas, on December 27, 2011, while most of us were still on vacation, the FDA quietly issued “Guidance for Industry Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information About Prescription Drugs and Medical… RT @pharmaguy: FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests … Continue reading FDA finally tries to regulate pharma social media, God Help Them
Kickstart a Voronoi Design App for Biomimetic Bookshelves and More core77.com Last weekend, New York saw the opening of its first ever Museum of Math (MoMATH)—the first one in the States—which, for all its kid-friendly attractions, probably doesn’t delve into higher-order phenomena such as, say, Voronoi diagrams, in which a… RT @core77: Kickstart a Voronoi … Continue reading Biomimetic design kick starts
Study Finds A Third Of NYC’s Seafood Is Mislabeled, Posing Health Risks Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (J Dailey)It isn’t just Los Angeles that is having a problem with mislabeled fish — a new study that tested seafood on menus, at grocery stores and in fancy specialty shops in New York City says plenty of the … Continue reading 33% of seafood is mislabeled in NYC
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This $200 iPhone Case Is An FDA-Approved EKG Machine Co.Design, huffingtonpost.com Most iPhone cases just protect your phone from drops. If you’re getting fancy, it may have a fisheye camera lens or a screen-printed back. But what about diagnosing coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, or congenital heart defects? The… http://flip.it/tkpwY Related articles EPI Life: World's first … Continue reading FDA approved iPhone EKG machine
Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top … Continue reading Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition
Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore John Timmer, arstechnica.com Some of the most successful drugs we know about have come from plants, including the cancer drug Taxol, the malarial treatment artemisinin, and even aspirin. The latter two were identified because of their use in herbal remedies that… http://flpbd.it/IKidw Related articles Drug … Continue reading Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore
How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma Without Running Afoul Of The FDA By Ben Paynter, fastcompany.com The biggest challenge to treating patients with diabetes isn’t doling out medications, it’s making sure that people control their habits. Poor diet and lack of exercise generally create complications with the disease. To combat … Continue reading How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma
Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Personal genetics company 23andMe announced Monday that it was seeking FDA approval for an initial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to follow. 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, markets genetics test… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe's Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million … Continue reading Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval
New Boston biotech companies such as Ginkgo BioWorks, Cambrian Innovation, and Manus Biosynthesis are tapping into ancient organisms and new IT capabilities to produce new solutions that are environmentally clean, US based, and fast with as little as 6 month product development life cycles. Gingko notes that 1/4 of their employees are software developers and … Continue reading Biotechs engineer ancient organisms and speed product development
I've been a speaker a these conferences and they do a good job of covering new developments in life science and social media. IIR USA - Events Deliver Business. Related articles Viva the Healthcare (Social) Revolution! (gigipeterkin.com) Profiles of Drug Companies "Doing it Right": AstraZeneca (medmeme.com) #ePharma Annual Summit: leveraging innovative digital marketing strategies (pharmastrategyblog.com) … Continue reading IIR ePharma Summit
This is really kind of sad...To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files - The Boston Globe. Related articles FDA Issues New Cautionary Guidelines for Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants, Parker Waichman LLP Reports (prweb.com) DrugRisk Announces Updated Information on Mirena Lawsuits (prweb.com) FDA's Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food and Current … Continue reading To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files
FDA issues final rule on safety information during clinical trials This is an interesting announcement and reveals to me the fact that the FDA is coming to grips with the fact that the current process for reporting adverse events needs an overhaul including refining what qualifies as an AE and how they are reported. I … Continue reading FDA final rule on safety info, but still no word on social media
Interesting teacher on natural products at this school of pharmacy. Dvorkin Camiel Lana - Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Related articles Medical Humanities: Health & Disease in Culture, Popular Culture & American Culture Associations National Conference (CfP, Conference, Washington, DC, March 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Wal-Mart Gets Organic Beauty (fabsugar.com) Beauty Byte: Burt's Bees Wants … Continue reading Dvorkin Camiel Lana – Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
via http://www.pixelsandpills.com More videos and tweets from the CBI social media conference by Pixels and Pills are now posted on their site. The importance of trust and authenticity in patient/professional/industry interaction thru new online channels is emphasized. CBI Social Media Tools Conference Agenda Related articles Upcoming Pharma Conferences: December 2012 (medmeme.com) Pharma Marketing to Physicians … Continue reading CBI Social Media Pharma Conference Videos now available from Pixels and Pills
Pharma companies have to deal with a lot of hurdles to allow people to collaborate with them online which may explain why they are such late adopters Regulations restrict social media use by biotechs, pharma - Mass High Tech Business News. Related articles Biotech, pharma warming up to Facebook (fiercebiotechit.com) Is FDA keeping social media … Continue reading Why biotech and pharma companies are taking so long to adopt social media
E-mails suggest Pfizer tried to suppress study on drug - The Boston Globe. Here we go again. Not just Vioxx and the ghost writing scare but now also Neurontin. Emails can get your company in a lot of trouble Related articles Pfizer's Arthritis Treatment Wins Approval From US FDA - Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Pfizer's Xeljanz story reveals why new drug development … Continue reading E-mails suggest Pfizer tried to suppress study on drug
Apple - Science - Profiles - Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Vertex uses Macs. Related articles Safety Can't Be an Afterthought (fool.com) Vertex (VRTX) Report Positive Data from Viral Kinetic of ALS-2200 in HCV Patients (streetinsider.com) Big Pharma + Big Failure = Big Punishment (dailyfinance.com) U.S. Biotech Clusters Are Losing Their Anchor Tenants, and It Hurts (xconomy.com) Vertex … Continue reading Apple Science Profiles – Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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